From West Virginia

[Sandy G]

An EXCELLENT book from 1958 on the foibles of cars then is "The Insolent Chariots" by a fellow named John Keats. He pretty much skewers the automobile industry. And while MUCH has changed, there is a LOT that sadly hasn't changed. Remember, in antebellum 1958, Detroit OWNED the American car market, imports were almost not really worth mentioning, except for the Volkswagen, which was looked on as a sick joke by a lot of insular Detroit. They never really understood the VW, their attempts to "Answer" the VW-Falcon, Valiant & Corvair-attest to this, altho the Corvair came reasonably close.